The National Day of Civic Hacking will provide citizens an opportunity to do what is most quintessentially American: roll up our sleeves, get involved and work together to improve our society. Web and software developers, designers, community organizers, and other folks from all over Athens will gather to tackle local challenges with technology.

Solving Real Problems, Helping Real People.

The event will focus on building technical solutions, but it is not about the technology; it’s about addressing local problems and challenges. The goal is to produce workable solutions that improve daily life for real people in our communities. The technical solutions we build will be built for a purpose, not just as an exercise.

Wondering if you should attend? See the flyer to the right to see if you can help.

The National Day of Civic Hacking is the largest ever national convening of civic hackers coming together tackle issues that are most pertinent to you and your community. The second annual National Day of Civic Hacking will take place in communities around the world on May 31 - June 1, 2014. Hack For Athens is proudly representing our city again this year, so put this on the calendar, check out the challenges, spread the word, and we look forward to changing the world together!

Event Overview

Schedule

Challenges

Datasets

Day

Time

Event

Information

Saturday, May 31st

9:00am

Oak Brook Corporate Center Opens

Doors open at 9:00am sharp.

9:30am - 10:30am

Breakfast

Breakfast is served

10:30am - 11:00am

Kickoff First Day

11:00am - 1:00pm

Team Formation

Those attending form teams together (optional) and select a challenge they wish to solve.

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Lunch and Team Formation

Team registration and challenge selections established, lunch is served.

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Team Work

Teams work on their respective challenges and solutions.

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Team Status Update

Q&A for teams who need help from the community (optional)

5:30pm - 6:30pm

Team Work

Teams work on their respective challenges and solutions.

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Dinner

Dinner is served

7:30pm - 10:00pm

Team Work

Teams work on their respective challenges and solutions.

10:000m - 9:30am

All Night Hackathon

Continue solving problems through the night, we're keep the doors open and the event going!

We aim to bring together governmental/research institutions with private individuals for achieving more rapid and efficient follow-up observations of newly detected asteroids, focusing on NEOs that may pose a threat to us.

This challenge will require participants to develop a strategy for providing affordable internet access to low-income neighborhoods within Athens-Clarke county that have low broadband subscription rates.

This challenge requires the creation of a system that promotes openness, transparency, and accountability of local government by providing high-value government data in standards compliant, machine readable formats.

Envirofacts has developed a RESTful data service API to all of its internal data holdings. This functionality provides a user of Envirofacts with the ability to query any table through the use of a URL.

Demographic data come from the U.S. Census' 2005-9 American Community Survey; Broadband adoption is based on the 768Kbps download / 200Kbps upload standard used by the Federal Communications Commission